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Mohammad Jahanara

Mohammad Jahanara (31 August 1954-29 September 1981) was a general of Iran who commanded Iranian Revolutionary Guards Council (IRGC) forces during the Iran-Iraq War.

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Mohammad Jahanara was born on 31 August 1954 in Khorramshahr in the Iranian region of Khuzestan, and in 1968 he created the Allaho Akbar political movement that opposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's monarchy. In 1978 he fought the government as a member of the Mansoron group and after the Iranian Revolution he helped to create the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Council (IRGC) branch of the Iranian Army. In the Iran-Iraq War, he defended his hometown alongside Iranian forces and was one of the last soldiers to leave Khorramshahr upon its fall to the Iraqi forces. He was able to defend the city of Abadan from Iraqi attack, but on 29 September 1981 he died in a plane crash at Kahrizak, Tehran. 

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